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No. 198,133. Patented Dec.`11,1877`;

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' N. PETERS. PHOTO L THDGR 'UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ALEXANDER MATGHETT, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-KINDLERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,133, dated December 11, 1877; application led October 12, 1877.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Beit knownthat I, ALEXANDER MATCEETT, of Allegheny city, county of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered a new and useful Improvement in Fire-Kindlers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, concise, and exact description thereof, reference being hadto the accompanying' drawing, making apart of this speciflcation, which illustrates one form in which my improved fne-kindler may be prepared.

My improvement in fire-kindlers has in view the utilizing and saving of scrap and cuttings of straw-board, paper, and other like waste material, such as is continually accumulating in large quantities about paper-box establishments, book-binderies, and printingoffices, and other like places.

I construct my improved kindlers by folding and gathering these strips and cuttings a into small bundles of, say, about sixinchesinlength by four inches in width, more or less, and bind them by folding strips b of the same material around them in one or more directions, as shown in the drawing. The free ends of these binders may be glued together by any suitable adhesive matter, or they may be knotted, or folded, or tucked under other parts of the bundle; or, if desired, the bundle may be bound in shape with wrapping-twine or other like wrappin g material.

The bundles, thus prepared, are dipped in liquid resin, or a solution or mixture of the same with other inflammable material, such as petroleum, tar, Src. This results in coating the bundle with the mixture employed, and while this coating is still soft and plastic I- drop or roll the bundle in ne paper cuttings or shavings or sawdust. A quantity of this made cylindrical or of other form.

A kindler made of the materials and in the manner described will weigh from about onefourth to one-half of a pound, and While it will burn readily itwill generate sufficient heat, and Y sustain the same a sufficient time to thoroughly ignite either wood or soft coal, such as is used for fuel in many parts of the country, and probably also hard coal, though when used in lighting hard-coal fires the bundles should, perhaps, be made larger than those described.

In constructing these kindlers I can make use of not only the cuttings described, but also old paper packing-boxes of various kinds, which are usually considered worthless, and which may thus be turned to profitable account.

I claim as my invention- The re-kindlcr herein described, consisting of a bundle made of paper or paper-board, or both, coated with resin or other inflammable mixture, and withor without an exterior nonadhesive material, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ALEXANDER MATOHETT.

Witnesses: A'

J. J. McGoRMIoK, GLAUinUs L. PARKER. 

